What are parents saying?

But Steve Fryer, whose son's sausage roll was confiscated, insists parents were "up in arms" over the new policy - and some people debating the story online tended to agree.

Milly Jo Winship deemed the policy "ridiculous", writing on Facebook: "So many children are picky eaters".

Isabel Howell said a ban "wouldn't stop" her from packing a sausage roll in her daughter's lunchbox.

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"Sandwiches every day are boring, what's wrong with swapping in a sausage roll or pork pie," she wrote.

"My daughter sometimes asks for it as a change."

But others sympathised with the school, saying that children need to learn to make healthy choices.

Alison Quemby said: "The occasional sausage roll with some carrot sticks and an apple; fine. But what if it's a huge Greggs sausage roll and a packet of crisps every day?

"If the parents aren't going to teach their children to make healthy choices regularly, then school has to," she added.

Did you know?

Schools in England must provide drinking water - free of charge - at all times on school premises.

And they can't sell drinks with added sugar, crisps, chocolate or sweets in vending machines.

Schools are obliged to give packed lunch pupils, free of charge, somewhere to eat their food and "these facilities should include accommodation, furniture and supervision", the DfE says.

However, everyone is off the leash when...

The usual regulations can be tossed aside:

for parties or celebrations for special occasions,

at fund-raising events

and as rewards for achievement, good behaviour or effort

So that's why no-one minds when your child's "star of the week" and the teacher gives him or her a chocolate bar - just in case you were wondering.

What do you pack in your children's lunch boxes?

Evgenia Teplechuk from Edinburgh said her son's lunch box contained a sandwich made with brown or rye bread, with cheddar cheese, tomato/cucumber/lettuce and either chicken, ham or egg, water or a fruit smoothie, a piece of fruit or carrot sticks and sometimes a fruit stick for a treat. She said a lack of facilities to reheat food at school limited what she could make for her child.

"Today my child took an apple, small bag of cookies, small amount of crisps a mini cheese and a cheese sandwich with water," said Mark Hood from Gateshead. He said he found it "concerning" when children who will only eat certain foods are forced to eat what's given to them or go hungry.

Daniela Thake, in Cambridge, packed her seven-year-old's lunch box with a brown bread and smoked salmon sandwich, a pear, natural yogurt pot ,a small pack of crisps and water bottle.

What did you put in your children's packed lunch today? Share what's in their lunch boxes by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.

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